An original adventure of the good, the bad, and the unknown in the Star Wars galaxy, following on the events of the New York Times bestselling Crosscurrent.

In the process of vanquishing a shipload of Sith from the distant past, Jedi Knight Jaden Korr uncovered the frozen results of a horrific cloning experiment: insane Jedi-Sith clones. Only some of those clones thawed...and now they're loose in a galaxy that has enough to deal with under the tightening grip of the evil Darth Caedus. Jaden Korr will have to hunt them down, and if he can't save them, he will have to destroy them!

From the marketing info near the end:

THE DREAD EVIL OF THE DARK SIDE: The Dark Lords of the Sith are always popular with fans, and in Riptide they make a secret but threatening appearance in the galaxy during the events of the Legacy of the Force series.

Jacen is still alive and in power, but "Dark Lords of the Sith" make "a secret appearance"? I guess Jacen's Dark Lord of the Sith
-status has then been made non-canon like that of Lumiya's was in LotF?

max jaybo wrote:
Kirr... not only did I post that blurb already, you posted that once before as well.

Ha - I'm getting senile and repetitive, is that what you're saying. Well, I didn't make a front page post about it anyway. Maybe I just wanted to remind everyone. Yeah that's it. Each time we get a new page in this topic, I'll post it again.

MrNomAnor wrote:Rouge, based on what Kemp has already said, they're referring to the One Sith, specifically Wyyrlock.

I know, but they make it sound like Jacen doesn't count as a DLotS... Only the "competitor's" (DHs) DlotS arethe "real thing" according to their their own blurb writers and Jacen is left standing outside that exclusive club.

If one sacrifices a character with almost twenty years of development behind him, at least one shouldn't makehim into a doormat for other people's much younger creations, even when the other people do so (the "lightningrod comment about "Cadeous" from Legacy).

This at the same time that DH itself throws Legacy and it's "true" DLotSs into a wastebasket...

"The sizzle of igniting lightsabers sounded from behind him and instinct took over. He rolled to his left, bounded to his feet,
took his own blade in hand, and ignited it. The red line sparked and hissed, a mirror of his mood. Force lightning shot from his
fingers, coiled around his hilt, his blade. He reveled in the newfound intensity of his power."

I am so hoping that we'd see Caedus in this book, and thought you had found proof...until I read that last sentence. Still, can't wait for the book!

I'm also curious about what you said here, Rouge77: "This at the same time that DH itself throws Legacy and it's "true" DLotSs into a wastebasket... "

Did Legacy recently do something with their Sith to give them less importance? I'm not following the comics, except that I've heard they referred to Caedus as a "distraction." Is there a way to get a summary of the Legacy comics without having to find and buy them all?

An original adventure of the good, the bad, and the unknown in the Star Wars galaxy, following on the events of the New York Times bestselling Crosscurrent.

In the process of vanquishing a shipload of Sith from the distant past, Jedi Knight Jaden Korr uncovered the frozen results of a horrific cloning experiment: insane Jedi-Sith clones. Only some of those clones thawed...and now they're loose in a galaxy that has enough to deal with under the tightening grip of the evil Darth Caedus. Jaden Korr will have to hunt them down, and if he can't save them, he will have to destroy them!

I'm confused, but then I always have been with the timing in Crosscurrent. In Crosscurrent, Jaden talks about the end of the Caedus reign. But now his grip is tightening?

"The sizzle of igniting lightsabers sounded from behind him and instinct took over. He rolled to his left, bounded to his feet, took his own blade in hand, and ignited it. The red line sparked and hissed, a mirror of his mood. Force lightning shot from his fingers, coiled around his hilt, his blade. He reveled in the newfound intensity of his power."

LovetheDarkSide wrote:I am so hoping that we'd see Caedus in this book, and thought you had found proof...until I read that last sentence. Still, can't wait for the book!

I'm also curious about what you said here, Rouge77: "This at the same time that DH itself throws Legacy and it's "true" DLotSs into a wastebasket... "

Did Legacy recently do something with their Sith to give them less importance? I'm not following the comics, except that I've heard they referred to Caedus as a "distraction." Is there a way to get a summary of the Legacy comics without having to find and buy them all?

They ended Legacy and (seemingly) killed Krayt for good, with his followers abandoning open fight.

Caedus was described as a "a lightning rod" and called Cadeus by Krayt in a relatively early issue.

Wookieepedia perhaps offer the best way to get summary, but you would need to read several articles. Here's the main article,and I suggest reading the articles for Cade and Krayt, which should give a summary of the whole series in it's overall lines:

"The
sizzle of igniting lightsabers sounded from behind him and instinct
took over. He rolled to his left, bounded to his feet, took his own
blade in hand, and ignited it. The red line sparked and hissed, a mirror
of his mood. Force lightning shot from his fingers, coiled around his
hilt, his blade. He reveled in the newfound intensity of his power.

Jaden got a red lightsaber in Crosscurrent, so logically this could be
him. Or it could be one of the mad clones - perhaps ("another" )
Jaden clone?

Not for the first time, he wondered how much of recent events the Master had foreseen, how far into the future the Master’s foresight extended. It was as though the Master had a recorder on the eye of fate, and through it saw and anticipated events like no one else.